In conversation with Matt Galloway, on CBC Television radio program The Current, Mahnaz Afkhami speaks about her time as Minister for Women’s Affairs of Iran. She also speaks about her childhood in Iran and the Iran she sees today. Afkhami speaks in depth about how she views current protests and how they differ from previous…
Author: Jessica Molander
Mahnaz Afkhami’s The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement - with Azar Nafisi
Date: October 16 2022 Time: 3:00PM EST Location: Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 Description: In The Other Side of Silence, a skilled storyteller who has spent her life in two worlds, Mahnaz Afkhami shares her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women’s rights in…
Mahnaz Afkhami was Iran's Minister for Women until the 1979 Islamic revolution and has never been able to return since (Spanish)
Description: In an interview with La Nación, Mahnaz Afkhami speaks in depth about her time as the Secretary General of the Women’s Organization of Iran and as Iran’s first and only Minister for Women’s Affairs. Afkhami discusses Iran’s drive in the 1970s to focus on modernity and women’s rights. She also speaks about the Iranian…